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Unexpectedly, none of the game's first 112 drawings produced a top-prize winner (of either payment option.) Finally, for the March 5, 2012 drawing, a ticket sold in
Georgia matched all six numbers.
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Decades of
Dollars was drawn Monday and Thursday nights. DoD winners had a choice of 30 annual payments of $ 250,000 each (minus withholdings) or a lump sum of $ 4,000,000.
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offered it. Georgia and
Kentucky joined Virginia in launching DoD; Arkansas joined in May 2011. (DoD replaced
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was an
American lottery game that began as a multi-state game in January 2011, though by its end, only the
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drawing game. DoD held its final drawing on April 30, 2015; Virginia replaced it with the multi-state
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Decades of
Dollars drawings were conducted by the Georgia Lottery at WSB-TV in Atlanta (which hosts
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65:$ 2 (Kentucky and Virginia players received a DoD play; Arkansas and Georgia winners won $ 2.)
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into 2011, when
Kentucky dropped it as part of the launch of DoD. Georgia pulled out of
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DoD became a
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The first drawing game which linked
Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia was
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drawings); the ball sets and drawing machines moved to
Virginia.
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in
Kentucky; WFL ended in 2014 as a Virginia-only game.)
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a few months before Virginia discontinued the game.
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Match 6 of 6: $ 250,000 per year in 30 installments
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50:Each Decades of Dollars game cost $ 2; players
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88:Arkansas never produced a top prize in DoD.
702:2011 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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692:Economy of the Southeastern United States
169:top-prize winners chose the cash option.
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40:, becoming its fourth member, but non-
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234:Thrash, Rodney (October 22, 2014).
697:Lottery games in the United States
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240:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
717:2011 establishments in Arkansas
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707:2011 establishments in Kentucky
285:Lotteries in the United States
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44:with its other three states.
545:(by number of jurisdictions)
61:Match 2 of 6: free DoD play
661:Monopoly Millionaires' Club
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74:Match 5 of 6: $ 10,000 cash
34:Monopoly Millionaires' Club
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598:Former multi-state games
71:Match 4 of 6: $ 100 cash
17:Decades of Dollars (DoD)
68:Match 3 of 6: $ 10 cash
124:Madisonville, Kentucky
57:DoD prize structure:
329:District of Columbia
136:Waynesboro, Virginia
95:top-prize winners:
54:from 1 through 47.
628:Decades of Dollars
223:. 11 January 2011.
167:Decades of Dollars
142:Florence, Kentucky
130:McDonough, Georgia
101:2012 (7 to date):
93:Decades of Dollars
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588:Tri-State Lottery
543:Multi-state games
504:US Virgin Islands
118:Norfolk, Virginia
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81:$ 4,000,000 cash
21:Virginia Lottery
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148:2013: (none)
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641:(1988–1992)
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319:Connecticut
182:Lotto South
140:August 16:
98:2011 (none)
686:Categories
519:Washington
434:New Mexico
429:New Jersey
309:California
203:References
122:April 26:
116:April 12:
42:contiguous
666:Wild Card
633:Hot Lotto
610:Cash4Life
576:Cash4Life
552:Powerball
529:Wisconsin
494:Tennessee
399:Minnesota
374:Louisiana
110:March 8:
104:March 5:
38:Cash4Life
651:MegaHits
514:Virginia
459:Oklahoma
439:New York
419:Nebraska
409:Missouri
394:Michigan
384:Maryland
369:Kentucky
349:Illinois
324:Delaware
314:Colorado
304:Arkansas
154:October
134:May 10:
618:Cashola
534:Wyoming
509:Vermont
414:Montana
354:Indiana
339:Georgia
334:Florida
299:Arizona
128:May 3:
464:Oregon
364:Kansas
151:2014:
499:Texas
379:Maine
344:Idaho
582:2by2
578:(10)
572:(13)
566:(23)
560:(47)
554:(48)
454:Ohio
359:Iowa
165:All
590:(3)
584:(4)
197:WFL
193:WFL
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79:or
63:or
277:e
270:t
263:v
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